excerpt from Frankenstein
by Mary Shelly
I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of
my undertaking. It impossible to communicate to you :
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conception of the trembling sensation, half pleasurable and half
fearful, with which I am preparing to depart. I am going to
unexplored regions, to "the land of mist and snow," but I shall kill
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no albatross; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or it I
should come back to you as worn and woeful as the *Ancient
Mariner." You will smile at my allusion, but I will disclose a secret.
I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate
enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of ocean to that
production of the most imaginative of modern poets. There it
He shares that it will be dangerous, but he
something at work in my soul which I do not understand. Iam
s attracted to the mystery of it all.
practically industrious-painstaking, a workman to execute with
perseverance and labor-but besides this there is a love for the
marvelous, a belief in the marvelous, intertwined in all my
The narrator shares that it is hard work,
projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men,
but he loves the adventure of the seas.
even the wild sea and unvisited regions I
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explore.
The narrator says he is afraid to go but is
excited at the same time.
He will travel to new, unknown areas like
an old seaman does.
The narrator explains that he cannot fully
descnibe how he is feeling